Finding a good place to practice is always a challenge. I love playing the same thing over and over until I get it right. But not everyone likes to listen to the process. Actually the first good teenage band that I formed was called, "The Atomic Basement Band." Nothing about us was really atomic. But everything about us was basement. We spent countless hours cranking up our amps and pounding the drums in a windowless, cinderblock cell. That is where my hands learned to handle a firebreathing guitar sound, and to control the noises and feedback that come along with it. Here at the Artistworks Online Rock Guitar School, I've built a course that gets those techniques into your hands, without having to annoy your neighbors, suffer hearing loss, or buy unnecessary noise gates, mechanical nut-muting clamps, or the expensive time of a recording engineer to edit out all the blunders. Thanks to everyone for being here, and sounding better all the time! 

Paul

P.S. That photo in my "sparkly enough" blog started giving me the creeps. So I had to hurry up and write another!

Hey all,

Happy to have co-written the new Red Velvet-single "One of these nights" together with Maria Marcus and Chanhee Hwang. The video has so far had more than 2 million You Tube views in just 48 hours after the release!

The song is also included on the mini album "The Velvet", in four different versions: original version, piano version and 2 re-mixes. The album is currently Nr 1 on the daily Korean physical album chart and digitally made it to Nr 1 on Itunes in Singapore and Thailand.

The song is a rnb-style ballad with quite a few interesting transitions harmony wise, espacially going from the pre-chorus to the chorus. We wrote this @ SM Entertainment Studios in Seoul during July 2015.

I really like the cool visuals in this video, as the lyrics describes two lovers being far away from each other...not knowing when they'll meet next time.

I hope u'll like this song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xWiro_tS1k

Regards Andreas

I was going through some old photos, and I found these shots from the "Spaceship One" album cover photo session. The top photo is the one I used, but I decided to the crop the photo so my head wouldn't be seen. Now you can see the uncropped version. The other two are examples of things that every rock photo session must have: 1. Staring into the camera, looking mean. 2. Jumping into the air. The guitar is a 60's Ibanez hollowbody. I bought it on ebay, and it came with the wrong bridge, so it wasn't playable without finding some rare parts. But it looked cool for the photos. 

And many thanks to Linus of Hollywood and Marco Minnemann who were both willing to wear matching space suits for the accompanying video. 

Rock and Roll!

Paul

The Fireman is a large-bodied Electric Brontosaurus of a guitar. I made some time to organize my studio, and I certainly enjoyed putting this collection together. Thank you, Ibanez, for building these!

Rock and Roll,

Paul